Year: 2016
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Nov- 2016 -1 NovemberCommentary
Jeffrey Caron: For Voters Concerned About Tiverton’s Taxes
With 18 candidates running for seven Town Council seats and nine candidates running for six Budget Committee seats, I created…
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Sep- 2016 -26 September
Durfee Should Budget for the Living
A recent letter by Budget Committee Member Louise Durfee deserves response on two points. First, Ms. Durfee’s attempt to spin…
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15 September
The Value of Transparency After the Investigative Report
In 2014, Tiverton Fact Check noted that the second-highest-paid employee in town was Police Lieutenant Timothy Panell. In fact, our…
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Jul- 2016 -24 July
Tiverton 1st Set Out to Teach Taxpayers a Lesson
If the Town Council follows through with the Budget Committee’s threat to end trash pickup in Tiverton (or charge extra…
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24 July
Driggs and Cook: Response to Reckless Comments from Activist Budget Committee Member
We are responding to Tiverton Budget Committee Secretary, Deb Scanlon Janick’s dangerously reckless statements, made in her recent letter to…
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Jun- 2016 -27 June
Nancy Driggs: Apologies Are Due to Tiverton Budget #2 Voters
Following the FTR vote the Budget Committee re-convened on June 9, 2016 to carry out its remand responsibility to “determine…
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23 June
Town Council Should Reject Budget Committee’s Vindictive Scheme to Kill Trash Pickup
The Tiverton Budget Committee has no authority to eliminate residential trash pickup, but in order to make a political statement with…
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20 JuneOriginal Reports
No Need for Budget Committee’s Reckless Vengeance of Ending Trash Pickup
By far the most controversial move in the recent history of Tiverton budgeting was the Budget Committee’s decision to reduce…
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May- 2016 -30 MayNews
Strategy for Addressing the 0.9% Budget #2 Remand to the Budget Committee
Now that their petition has won at the 2016 financial town referendum (FTR), the supporters of the 0.9% Budget #2…
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21 May
0.9% Budget #2 Wins Again
Preliminary numbers: Budget #1: 879 (40%) Budget #2: 1,220 (55%) Budget #3: 100 (5%) Provisional ballots yet to be counted…
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